OT: Wallet Hub Ranks Football Cities
Ann Arbor did okay...ranked 10th for midsized cities and with an overall score higher than Columbus, South Bend, and East Lansing, but below State College.
Ann Arbor was ranked the 5th most engaged "college football" city (#2 in the BigTen behind State College). We got dinged on expensive ticket prices. Supposedly we have the 4th most expensive college football tickets.
Out of 230 cities ranked, New York City was ranked #229 in terms of college football engagement...which seems to lend credence that adding Rutgers wouldn't help much inside of NYC media rights.
February 3rd, 2019 at 5:11 PM ^
Been dying for Wallet Hub's take on this!
February 3rd, 2019 at 6:00 PM ^
dear leader, do they have 'wallet hub' in your country? does wallet hub have rankings for intercontinental ballistic missile guidance systems? asking for a dictator friend of mine.
February 3rd, 2019 at 5:12 PM ^
Even if NYC ranks #229 in CFB engagement, that's still more ad revenue than Michigan at #5 but what all of 150k people on a good day.
Also there are a TON of Michigan grads in NYC who are happy to have B1G access, even if it means Rutgers is the addition.
February 3rd, 2019 at 5:38 PM ^
Yeah. Rutgers was simply a means to an end. Maryland too, but at least they have an historically competent athletics program
February 4th, 2019 at 2:18 AM ^
Not only are the Michigan and other B1G alumni happy to have access, the B1G has access to them--I wouldn't be surprised if contributions are up as well.
February 3rd, 2019 at 5:14 PM ^
February 3rd, 2019 at 8:48 PM ^
I wondered that myself. It certainly isn't through the corporate means like the Gallup survey or things like that, so "engaged" is the one I am most curious about. Just based on subjective experience, I would say that Wolverine fans are pretty damn engaged (or this blog would look way different, for starters), but I would like to know what the metric is precisely.
February 3rd, 2019 at 5:21 PM ^
The fact that they ranked Hanover, NH as the 19th best for college fans kinda blew its credibility for me.
February 3rd, 2019 at 5:31 PM ^
I live in CT. Sports fans in the east have very little interest in college football. And no one is interested in Rutger football except students or alumni .
February 3rd, 2019 at 5:52 PM ^
Based on this survey, Dave Brandon would want to raise ticket prices, so we could be #1.
February 3rd, 2019 at 6:42 PM ^
Handmaids Tale spoofing Ronald Reagan’s iconic ad. Bold.
February 3rd, 2019 at 7:06 PM ^
Wallet Hub rankings of anything seem pretty consistently deeply subjective if not fairly arbitrary.
February 4th, 2019 at 12:50 AM ^
Not surprised by Chicago's low rank in CFB. If it wasn't for transplants like myself, it would probably be last!